Student Affairs News

Daylight Saving Time May Affect Outlook Calendar

Posted by Marc Jones, Systems Administrator, Student Affairs Information Technology
February 20, 2007

The Federal Government has changed Daylight Saving Time (DST) so that starting this year DST will go into effect on the second Sunday of March (March 11th), instead of the first Sunday of April (April 2nd). As a result all computers need to have their operating systems updated so that they will change their time on the correct day. Student Affairs Information Technology approved the software update for all computers in the Division in late November, so we expect that almost all machines should already have this patch applied.

Unfortunately as people begin scheduling for the spring semester some people have noticed problems with meetings scheduled in Outlook between March 11th and April 2nd. For instance I have recurring meetings for Wednesday at noon twice a month, every month during the school year. Every August I schedule the meetings to occur from August to May. Looking at my March 2007 calendar those meetings where moved to 1:00 pm for the Month of March. All of my meetings in April and May were fine.

Problems will most likely affect people who have scheduled meetings for March before the beginning of December 2006. Please review your March Outlook calendar to ensure that your meetings have not been shifted an hour later. Group meetings are also affecting by this, so everyone invited to the meeting to needs to check their own calendar, not just the meeting organizer.

If you have questions or concerns please contact the SAIT Call Center at 486-8992 or email sait@uconn.edu.